Colombia has broken diplomatic relations with Iran, citing alleged links between the Islamic Republic’s government and international terrorist groups, human rights violations and concerns over Tehran’s nuclear programme. The decision was formally
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced plans to significantly increase the population of the Golan Heights, a region that Israel captured from Syria in the 1967 war and later annexed. Netanyahu
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Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Monday that she is going to resign, citing differences with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over major spending decisions. “On Friday, you told me you no
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by Our Correspondent in New Delhi Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake arrived in India for a state visit from December 15 to December 17. This visit marks Dissanayake’s first official trip
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Elon Musk’s ongoing legal feud with OpenAI escalated Friday as new court filings revealed emails suggesting he once advocated for the very for-profit structure he now seeks to block. According to Axios,
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Coffee, one of the world’s most beloved beverages, has a rich history that spans centuries and continents. Originating in the highlands of Ethiopia, coffee began its global journey in the 15th century
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Sri Lanka is now facing an acute rice shortage that has raised serious concerns over the quality of imported supplies. Sri Lanka Customs recently uncovered significant issues with two large rice consignments
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National security advisors to incoming President Donald Trump are considering decapitating Iran’s nuclear program in a bombing campaign. They would not be thinking this way had not Israel been remarkably successful in wiping out
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When I served as Finance Minister, we faced one of the gravest financial crises in our nation’s history. Our reserves were depleted, our credit ratings were in freefall, and we had lost
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Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Finance announced the successful completion of its Consent Solicitation and Exchange Offer for International Sovereign Bonds (ISBs), achieving an extraordinary level of participation from bondholders. This development marks
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Gampaha District MP Ashoka Ranwala, representing the JVP/NPP, has announced his decision to resign from his position as Speaker. In a statement released today, Mr Ranwala cited difficulties in providing the necessary
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Moscow has strongly condemned the US Department of the Treasury’s decision to issue a $20 billion loan to Ukraine, calling it an act of “common robbery” and accusing the G7 countries of
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The eighth continent is the Continent of Sleaze. You and I have never been there, only heard rumours about it. On that continent, there are rivers of money in which corporate executives
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Nineteen U.S. Peace Corps Volunteers took their oaths today in Colombo, marking the second group of Volunteers to return to Sri Lanka since the program’s relaunch last year. The ceremony highlighted the
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The long-sidelined ambition to construct a multi-billion-dollar natural gas pipeline from Qatar to Europe via Turkey might be back on the table, following the dramatic fall of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad. A plan
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As the rebel forces led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (Syria Liberation Committee) seized Damascus, Syria’s capital, on December 7, 2024, the president of Syria, Bashar al-Assad boarded a flight to Moscow, Russia. It
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